9.2.3

[OS923]

The "Lock volumes" system menu is almost finished.
I beautified PowerPlant with UniversalIndentGUI.
I'm improving it a bit.

[OS923]

The "Lock volumes" system menu is finished:
https://www.gangstalking.eu/shareware/macos/os923/SELockVolumes.htm
You can download it here:
https://www.gangstalking.eu/shareware/macos/os923/DesignNewFinder.htm

[s0s]

Just checked the site, and it's expired. I hope he renews it, since I just recently found out about it and haven't had time to check everything out yet.

[OS923]

The site has moved to https://www.gangstalking.eu/shareware/macos/os923/

[LillyOmegaWolf]

This unofficial update looks really cool 
As someone who grew up with classic Macs in primary and then the coloured imacs running 10.2 in intermediate school (but never had the money for one of my own back then), its taken me a while to get into classic Mac OS because all my work is done in Final Cut Pro X and Sierra.

I'm just wondering, will it work on my G4 1.42ghz dual processor Mac? I know its not officially supported by OS9, if your build doesn't add support for the non-supported G4s then I'll still happily have to give this a try on my 466mhz G4 and even my newly acquired G3 iBook clamshell.

I like what I'm reading in terms of what you have accomplished and I'm wondering, has any moves been made toward allowing for bigger hard drive partitions than 190 or better memory?

[GaryN]

In the downloads section there is an OS9.2.2 image specifically for the FW 800 MDD. There are a couple of minor limitations - for example, your FW800 ports will operate at 400 - but trust me, OS9 running at 1.42GHz has to be seen to be believed!

[IIO]

190 GB limit -> for booting OS9
500 GB limit -> at IDE & SATA ports
2000 GB limit -> at usb and firewire ports

[LillyOmegaWolf]

In the downloads section there is an OS9.2.2 image specifically for the FW 800 MDD. There are a couple of minor limitations - for example, your FW800 ports will operate at 400 - but trust me, OS9 running at 1.42GHz has to be seen to be believed!

I shall give that a go then thanks. If its a good as you say, then it should blow Tigers speed away

[LillyOmegaWolf]

190 GB limit -> for booting OS9
500 GB limit -> at IDE & SATA ports
2000 GB limit -> at usb and firewire ports

I knew the booting limit, but I didn't know other drives could be so much bigger, thanks.

For the ports, do you mean the formatted drive's size? I plugged in a 500gb SSD by USB into my G4 running 9.2.2 and it didn't seem to see it.

[IIO]

size per partition.

for example 3x500 off a 1.5TB internal SATA harddrive connected via PCI card  or IDE adapter.

but good that you mention it: there is also a 2 TB drive size limit (no matter how you connect) - so watch out when you buy new drives.

p.s.:
i´d usually recommend to use 500 per partition for firewire, too.
but myself i actually also use a firewire to SATA case with an 1.3 TB partition sucessfully in OS9 and as far as i know no problem should occur with that.

fwiw, since we´re an audio board i should also point out that there seems to be a weird partition limit of 168 something for its custom disk access method in protools 4.

[LillyOmegaWolf]

Okay, thats very good to know.

Any recommendations for PCI cards that could do the job? I got a few 2tb drives lying around I could make use of. Ones like the Sonnet X4P PCI-X eSATA card only list Mac OSX compatibility.

[IIO]

sonnet has older ones which work. SATA 300 is fairly enough for a G4, more seems like wasted. sonnet are based on the most common cards around, they have a list here in the forums of non branded sil cards which are natively supporting mac.

[OS923]

I'm just wondering, will it work on my G4 1.42ghz dual processor Mac?

I tried it and the async tools crashed while the sync tools work. I will look into it, because I have such a G4 1.42 GHz DP and I want that it works.

The new release will use the same shared libraries with PowerPlant without exceptions. It will probably work.

[OS923]

I solved the game tree of Connect 4. This will be included in the next release.

I got interested in it because of the Fhourstones benchmark.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fhourstones

In computer science, Fhourstones is an integer benchmark that efficiently solves positions in the game of Connect-4. It was written by John Tromp in 1996-2008

My solution takes 2 hours and 5 minutes on the G4 MDD 1.25 DP. It calculates 114000 moves per second.

[DesertMac]

does anyone here have any experience of this "upgrade": http://www.os923.com/?

That link opens up to Asian porn on my machine???

[IIO]

The site has moved to https://www.gangstalking.eu/shareware/macos/os923/

or stay with porn, its your choice. as long as no animals are harmed...

[OS923]

I ordered a new website because I want to get rid of the .eu domain.

[OS923]

I'm going to rewrite the tools. (They are already 6 years old.) The font has to be larger. The window background has to be white. The menus have to be in the menu bar. The controls for working with multiple preferences have to be replaced with menus in the menu bar. I'm going to use my own framework with multiple undo which I use also for the UniFinder. They are merged to one system that works with HFS+ instructions instead of HFS: all programs have to work with long Unicode file names and files > 2 GB. I want to use my special notation like you can see in https://gangstalking.eu/problems/Connect4InCpp.htm. There has to be an option for sync or async, an option for working with multiple threads (read, process, write) and a cancel button. There has to be a language for expressions like (type="TEXT" or type="ttro") and creator="ttxt" to select files and folders. I also want a "regret system" where you can point at one of your past actions that you regret and then it proposes a solution. Instead of overwriting the files, they have to be swapped with temporary files. These temporary files can then be used for undo or regret. I've been doing this type of things already before I wrote those tools. I'm confident that I can do it.

[OS923]

My website has moved to www.gsehi.com

Shareware.
Mac stuff. (The extensions are now a separate download.)
OS 9.2.3.

[IIO]

lol.